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Maypop Vine, Passion Flower Vine - Passiflora incarnata

Family - Passiflora

Description -
Native perennial vine climbing up to about 10 feet by tendrils, dies to the
ground in winter, sending up sprouts from the roots the following spring. One of several Passiflora Spp.
which are native to Florida. Leaves are alternate, palmately lobed with 3 and
occasionally 5 lobes, leaf margins are serrate. Fruit is a berry, shaped like &
about the size of an egg, containing many seeds. Nectar & larval host plant for
butterflies including the Gulf fritillary & Zebra longwing, Florida's state
butterfly.

Eastern Poison Ivy
- Toxicodendron radicans spp. radicans

Family - Anacardiaceae

Description -
Native Florida vine. Perennial.
Contact with any part of plant can cause rashes and blisters
that may require medical treatment.

Leaf appearance
is somewhat varied, generally palmately compound with three ovate leaflets that
are shiny green when young, becoming dull green as they mature and may have a reddish tinge and black specks, turning red
in the fall.

Flower -
Inconspicuous, fruits a black or bluish-black berry.

Bitter melon, Balsam apple - Momordica charantia

Family - Cucurbitaceae

Habitat - Ruderal,
fence-lines, Hammocks, Orange groves.

Description - Introduced
annual creeping or climbing herbaceous vine. Leaves alternate,
deeply palmately cut with five to seven lobes, may be hairy or smooth,
margins usually toothed. Often appears as a yard weed and can be quite
persistent if allowed to self seed. A related specie, Momordica balsamina L.
is sometimes cultivated.

Flower - A solitary yellow flower is produced on stalks, produces an
egg shaped, ribbed fruit with a bumpy surface, 3-4 inches long,
golden yellow to bright orange, splitting open when mature to reveal
bright red arils which contain seeds.

Lovevine,
Dodder - Cassytha filiformis

Family - Lauraceae

Habitat - Sandhill, Scrub, Pinelands, Hammocks

Description -
Common native herbaceous vine is frequently seen growing on
oaks, Love vine is a true parasitic plant. Once it has attached itself
to a host plant it detaches from its root and will eventually
kill the host. It is seldom invasive as it is generally
selective to certain host species. Leaves are small scales, not noticeable to the
naked eye.

Saw greenbrier
- Smilax bona-nox

Family - Smilacaceae

Habitat - Wet to
dry Flatwoods, Hammocks, Scrub throughout the state.

Description -
Florida native vine, distinguished from other Similax sp. by leaves having
prominent prickles along margins. Leaves are variable in shape and may or may
not have lighter yellowish splotches on surface. Stems to over 20 feet with
numerous sharp thorns to 1/4 inch long.

Muscadine Grape
- Vitis
rotundifolia

Family - Vitaceae

Habitat - Dry to moist flatwoods,
floodplains and bottomland forests.

Description - Native climbing vine
to over 60 feet long. Leaves are alternate, simple, cordate with dentate
margins. Can be distinguished from other native grapes by the un-branched
tendrils with which it climbs.

Flower - 1 1/4 to 3 inch clusters of green flowers from spring to
early summer. Fruit is a 3/8 inch or slightly larger berry, reddish
to black.